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Arcadia provides feast of ideas from Tom Stoppard

05.06.09
Tom Stoppard's Arcadia is that rare thing, a toothsome entertainment that also thrills us with a dozen strange thoughts before bedtime.... more

Rosmersholm: A towering play

23.05.08
This masterpiece – a favourite of Freud’s – features three suicides, and a lavish portion of sexual guilt. ... more

Helen's heart of darkness

23.05.08
The merit of Anthony Page's lucid, refreshing production of Rosmersholm, is that it never succumbs to the temptations of melodrama... more

Housewife’s ripple of rebellion

24.04.08
Harper Regan provides an intriguing barometer of our pressured times with a middle-aged, middle-class woman as its central character.... more

Play with no words left me speechless

14.02.08
The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other - a wordless play in which infinite characters keep the stage filled with brief, pointless bursts of activity - left Nicholas de Jongh speechless.... more

Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2007: the longlist

31.10.07
A dazzling year of performances on the London stage will be honoured at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2007. Here, for the first time, is the longlist. ... more

Old Vic's mother superior

05.09.07
No more extraordinary, sexually charged or surreal encounter than All About My Mother can ever have been played upon the Old Vic stage.... more

Pinter takes over the asylum

19.07.07
Harold Pinter's The Hothouse at the National engenders a beguiling sense of surprise and novelty and bristles with unease and menace, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Maggie's allure as the angel at death's door

21.03.07
The Lady From Dubuque lasted just 12 performances on Broadway, but Dame Maggie Smith's undimmed allure will insure Anthony Page's otherwise poorly acted production lasts longer over here.... more

Beautiful, soaring Seagull is a five-star swansong

26.01.07
This enthralling version of The Seagull offers a series of shocks for traditional Chekhov lovers and Mackenzie Crook's transition from TV comedian to serious actor is amazing.... more

Love sealed with a kill

14.11.06
The National's rising directorial star Marianne Elliott pulls out the stops in a bold re-imagining of Thérèse Raquin, Emile Zola's tale of murder.... more

Riveting five-star performance

16.10.06
Harold Pinter winds down his amazing dramatic career with a swansong performance in Krapp's Last Tape that will be written up in theatrical history.... more

Bizarre love rectangle

03.08.06
Theatre review: James Joyce's only play, Exiles, is a psychologically nuanced portrait of a marriage, writes Nicholas de Jongh, which draws its power from a husband's attempt to set adultery in motion.... more

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